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A conversation between the photographer Catherine Opie and Eileen Myles, author of "Chelsea Girls" and numerous volumes of poetry, in Houston on April 29, 2017.

The sixth episode of Not A Hobby features Rahul Mitra. He was born in Hyderabad, India, and lives in Houston. His work is heavily drawing based - mostly black ink on paper - through which he’s created his own visual vocabulary. He sees his work much like notes and his drawings like an extension of his handwriting. Rahul is also a scientist. He is the program director at The Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNAs at the MD Anderson Cancer Research Center in Houston. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is one of the three major biological macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life. They are the messenger between our DNA and the ability to produce proteins. A non-coding RNA is a RNA molecule that is not translating between DNA and protein production. So the idea is to introduce non-coding RNA into cells to disrupt production of particular proteins and whatever gene expression they trigger or suppress. Thus non-coding RNA can be targets to treat cancer. All of this is to say that Rahul is prett

Art Dirt 3: Texas Art Fairs: the Good, the Bad, and the Dallas by Glasstire

In Glasstire's Art Dirt podcast, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss the controversy over Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till in the Whitney Biennial.

In Glasstire's new Art Dirt podcast, Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss whether it's too soon for happy art, the new Moody Center at Rice University (and the demise of Rice Art Gallery), and Spring Break plans.

Dallas artist Thor Johnson weaves a tall tale of international art-crime intrigue in the Panhandle.

This episode is a little different than the previous Not A Hobby interviews - our guest is Dirk Rathke, an artist living and working in Berlin, Germany, and he does not have a full time job that he balances with his art career. But I wanted to interview him anyways since I feel like there is a fascination among the artist community in the US that longingly looks to their European colleagues. There is a sense that the funding and general support from the European governments for their artists is much more generous, so that they are able to focus full time on their art career without having to take 2nd or even third jobs. Dirk is a painter and has lived in Berlin quite some time. He was in Houston for an exhibition late last year and I wanted to ask him some frank questions about what the assistance situation is really like in Germany. You’ll be surprised how familiar it all sounds despite some glaring differences.

Shannon Duncan, an artist in Houston, does not have a full-time job - she has about 4 part-time jobs that make up her approximately 50 hour work. She certainly isn’t alone in cobbling together various jobs to make ends meet, but through it all she has had a decade-long commitment to working at Starbucks. Listen to Shannon discuss her work, her multiple jobs, the fun of adjunct teaching, and hopes for what will come next after her "coffee break" from Starbucks.

Ariane Roesch interviews three artists - Martha Hughes, Julian Mock, and Alyce Santoro - that all live and work in Marfa about what drew them to the city and the logistics of being an artist in the middle of nowhere. This podcast is sponsored by Eric Jarvis and crushpad productions in Houston.

For its third episode, Not A Hobby interviews Heyd Fontenot who has balanced jobs with his art career over the last 30 years. He has been the wonderful director at Centraltrak in Dallas for the last 5 years. "If you can keep making art, you win."

Being an artist is a lot of work. Not only do you have to continuously come up with good ideas and then execute them, but you also have to deal with the professional side of things, including promoting yourself, which often has no relation to the creative part of making work. And still, most artists don't make their living off of their art work. But they don't stop being artists. So to make ends meet, many artists have another job. Welcome to Not a Hobby, where we interview those artists who balance a full-time job and an art career. For these people, being an artist is not just a something you do in your leisure time. Episode 1 of Not A Hobby interviews Houston artist Solomon Kane.

In Episode 2 of Not A Hobby, Ariane Roesch interviews Krista Birnbaum. Her work ranges from photographic to sculptural and is somewhat whimsical, very detail oriented, and deals with control over nature.

On October 17, 2015, Glasstire welcomed the legendary artist Robert Irwin to Houston for a talk with Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Their warm, irreverent conversation about their history of working together at thrilled Houston audiences and continues to garner views on our Youtube channel. Robert Irwin is regarded as the central artist of the L.A.-based “Light and Space” movement in the 1960s. He designed the architecture and grounds of Dia: Beacon Center for the Arts; and the lush Central Gardens for the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California.

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Roberta and Richard Huber describe their collecting process

Rosa de Salazar y Gabino, Countess of Monteblanco and Montemar by Glasstire

Discussion about the Christ Child Figures from the Roberta and Richard Huber collection in the "Highest Heaven" exhibition currently on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art.